Word: kumquat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kill a Mockingbird. You all read it in high school. The screenplay is a good adaptation of Harper Lee's story of racial prejudice and growing up in the rural South. The trial is effectively handled, as is the kumquat scene in which one of the kids, dressed up like a vegetable, is pursued by meanies who don't like her father defending a black man). Gregory Peck is better than he's ever been, before or after, as the slow, humble, and wise Atticus Finch. The kids are marvelous...
LaZabnik can't quite keep up the pace. It's a little bit predictable to have God call Satan a "little devil" and he seems to think that just repeating words like "rhubarb" and "maraschino cherry" and "kumquat" will get laughs as surely as the name "Brooklyn" will once supposed...
...soda. Now there are signs of a fundamental shift in the frozen foundations of the Republic: Americans are beginning to turn a cold shoulder to the three pillars of their forefathers' frigid faith-chocolate, strawberry and vanilla -and flocking to flagrantly concupiscent flavors like Passion Fruit, Kumquat, Papaya, Sparkling Burgundy and Brandy Alexander...